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This message came in as a CSS feed. I clicked on the link to follow it up and read the article, but instead in came a flood of CSS text messages in Russian. I shut it down when I saw what was happening.

Sorry about that. :) In layman’s terms, it was a harmless, simple technical error. In technical terms, I used a relative URL (/ads/) rather than an absolute URL (http://www.cvillenews.com/), and FeedBurner failed to map /ads/ to cvillenews.com, which meant that—for about twenty minutes—any RSS reader that loaded the feed had a link to http://feedburner.google.com/ads/ rather than the correct link. It’s all fixed now.

In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #

Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on four six and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #

The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #